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Poster: tomwsmf Date: Apr 20, 2017 11:50pm
Forum: oldtimeradio Subject: Re: Playlists and RSS(podcasts) of Old Time Radio shows

Glad you are finding these of use.

You can get at all the daily m3us as well as the archived ones by looking at http://tomwsmf.com/podcasts/

Magic Island is indeed a show all its own. Part Lost, part family drama....my kids and I got a kick out of it. The modern podcast Welcome To Nightvale is a kindred spirit.

Let me know if there are any shows that need including into the existing podcasts or that deserves one of its own.

-tom

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Poster: ChronicKristinitis Date: Apr 21, 2017 1:46pm
Forum: oldtimeradio Subject: Re: Playlists and RSS(podcasts) of Old Time Radio shows

That's awesome - I hope the kids enjoy the OTR shows, if I had some little ones I'd probably force them to hear them ;)

Thanks for your work, I don't see how some of you guys find the time to do all of this, even if just uploading shows to the archive. I barely find time enough to listen to them all, let alone archive any or create playlists.
I am not a huge fan of modern shows, for many reasons but I will try to give the Nightvale a "courtesy ear".


but Magic Island is just plain nuts- I get kick out of the show and have listened to the series at least twice.
Don't know how old your children are, if they are school age or not but there are some great history lessons in "Cavalcade of America" and Democracy in America" https://archive.org/details/DemocracyinAmericaOTR a dramatized series of Alexis de Tocqueville's book, which is entertaining and instructive. To be honest I think I retained more knowledge out of this than any dull public school text book could provide.

The Cavalcade of Kings is also very well acted and performed, it's Australian, & I used it to brush up on some history of monarchs at the time. I bring these up in case you use the otr's as a school lesson for younger people.

Cheers- thanks for the reply and all your stuff!

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Poster: tomwsmf Date: May 1, 2017 8:18pm
Forum: oldtimeradio Subject: Re: Playlists and RSS(podcasts) of Old Time Radio shows

Some of those shows you mentioned I need to hunt down. I think if there is enough material I could do up an Educational OTR Podcast.

I recently did up a Quiz Show Podcast and one or two of those shows (Information Please) would be an interesting fit.

You Are There, which I am including in my History Now Podcast , would also be a great fit.

I will start gathering up the sources and see how much there is.

Thanks for the ideas, I think the will result in a new Podcast in a few weeks.

-tom